[H] AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire Video Card Review

[ICDP]

I never stated my opinion was fact though but many people comment that the bezels in between displays is a huge downside.

My 1080p comment isn't saying other resolutions are irrelevant but the comments screaming about 4k is just as daft when there's tiny amounts of people here who even use that res...

That is a gross generalisation, who is screaming about only 4K? It has already been pointed out many times in this thread that the review was about the quite common eyefinity/surround solutions as well. Though go right ahead and move the goalposts to suit your agenda to prove R9 290X is pointless because most of us use 1080p anyway.

 

[Gerard]

Have you tried Eyefinity for any real length of time Suarez? After a while you don't even notice the bezels.

 

[Andybtsn]

I really enjoy Eyefinity, for football games its really handy for me. FPS though I find I rarely look at the other screens, not sure why.

 

[Gerard]

I really enjoy Eyefinity, for football games its really handy for me. FPS though I find I rarely look at the other screens, not sure why.

They're more peripheral vision, not really meant to look directly at them

 

[Gregster]

Have you tried Eyefinity for any real length of time Suarez? After a while you don't even notice the bezels.

Very true. I did find the side screens were only getting a cursory glance now and then but loved my triple screen gaming. Rusty picked it up earlier about 3 screen gaming and the lack of info out there way back then. Things have improved so much lately and good to see reviewers giving it a mention.

 

[MDPlatts]

Not looked recently and not noticed it mentioned anywhere - but does it support PLP yet ?? - not interested until it does.

 

[Confused Stu]

While it's really great to see that frame pacing works on Eyefinity with crossfired R290X's, am I alone in worrying that this is AMDs solution to Eyefinity/Crossfire and us 7000-series cards are going to end up not getting pacing? Fingers crossed I'm reading too much into this and we do get a solution that doesn't involving buying new kit.

 

[LtMatt]

While it's really great to see that frame pacing works on Eyefinity with crossfired R290X's, am I alone in worrying that this is AMDs solution to Eyefinity/Crossfire and us 7000-series cards are going to end up not getting pacing? Fingers crossed I'm reading too much into this and we do get a solution that doesn't involving buying new kit.

Nope they've said its coming officially. I reckon within one month or so it will be here.

 

[Kaapstad]

Nope they've said its coming officially. I reckon within one month or so it will be here.

I think AMD should have ULPS off by default, what a useless pile it is.

It was reporting that I had a 32bit memory bus last night until I disabled it.

 

[LtMatt]

I think AMD should have ULPS off by default, what a useless pile it is.

It was reporting that I had a 32bit memory bus last night until I disabled it.

Actually thats the way it works Kaap. Leaving it enabled stops virtually all monitoring on the second gpu. You can only monitor gpu usage and fan speed via overlays etc. It actually physically turns off the gpu when you're not running a 3d app. The fan stops spinning and it uses zero power, aka zero core. The side effect of this is it messes up the gpu-z tables. However the card will ramp up to full speed when needed.

If overclocking best to disable. If you run at stock playing games id leave it on with powerful cards like that.

 

[Kaapstad]

Actually thats the way it works Kaap. Leaving it enabled stops virtually all monitoring on the second gpu. You can only monitor gpu usage and fan speed via overlays etc. It actually physically turns off the gpu when you're not running a 3d app. The fan stops spinning and it uses zero power, aka zero core. The side effect of this is it messes up the gpu-z tables. However the card will ramp up to full speed when needed.

With the 290Xs in CF they run a lot better without it in some things, there is quite a big difference.

 

[LtMatt]

With the 290Xs in CF they run a lot better without it in some things, there is quite a big difference.

LT has covered this before. You may not have noticed but when that 290 card was leaked earlier Dave Baunmann from AMD signed up. He ended up posting about it in this thread. That was when i presented the evidence. Sadly he never replied. Hopefully they're testing it though.

Generally i found if you're at stock the performance hit from leaving it enabled is small. If you overclock the difference becomes much larger. The problem is one gpu does not pull its weight in the usage stakes. This exacerbates the situation when you start overclocking. At stock its not much of an issue generally as the performance hit is small.

 

[Kaapstad]

Generally i found if you're at stock the performance hit from leaving it enabled is small. If you overclock the difference becomes much larger. The problem is one gpu does not pull its weight in the usage stakes. This exacerbates the situation when you start overclocking. At stock its not much of an issue generally as the performance hit is small.

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